admin on Oct 18th, 2008Message to Louisiana School Districts: The LA Science Education Act’s Religion Disclaimer Won’t Protect You.
By Barbara Forrest
One of the clearest indications that the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA) is intended to advance the religious agenda of the Discovery Institute (DI) and the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), the organizations that jointly promoted this legislation, is the law’s inclusion of a religion disclaimer that comes directly from DI’s doublespeak-titled “Model Academic [...]
admin on Jul 21st, 2008The “Dover Trial” — This should have been required viewing in Louisiana.
Anyone who missed Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, which aired on PBS’s NOVA in November 2007, can view the entire program on Google video (112 minutes). This Peabody Award-winning documentary of the first legal case involving intelligent design (ID) creationism, Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District (2005) is the story of the [...]
admin on Jul 4th, 2008National Center for Science Education Chronicles Jindal’s Signing of Creationism Bill
In its weekly e-newsletter, the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has chronicled Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signing of SB 733, the stealth creationism bill known as the “LA Science Education Act.”
NCSE is a national clearinghouse that provides assistance to citizens who seek to protect the teaching of science in their public schools:
“The National Center for [...]